Israel has worked tirelessly and VERY intentionally for decades to put Palestine into the vulnerable position that it's in. This was always the goal. They don't have an independent state. They are an occupied territory whose lives and economy are controlled by the Israeli government. This is important, because if you're a Palestinian activist, they could arrest or harass you or your family at any time if they don't like what you're saying. Palestinians cannot even travel or immigrate outside of Palestine because they are considered "stateless" due to Israelis work towards getting the international community not recognizing them as a state or their claim over land. Meanwhile, Israelis are free to travel internationally to schmooze with any leader they can. They do not have a standing army--indispensable when you want to defend yourself from genocidal attack like this and the world won't come to your aid. PMs of Israel have specifically stated it would be unacceptable to allow a Palestine with a standing army. They have isolated Palestine from having global, political relationships and allyships, which would kick into affect, like how America is defending Taiwan because of its semiconductors. America has AIPAC, their cabinet members filled with Israelis/Jews who lean heavily on leadership. Similar with Britain, Europe. The International Criminal Court is in their pocket, as evidence by their biased way of ignoring all Israeli war crimes while going after Russia. (By the way, how fucked up has Israel made the world, turning what was supposed to be an objective moral institution into a political institution). It's unpopular and unconscionable to support Palestine. You don't have political dinners with large groups of Palestinians. Political leaders will not meet with you. They have recently prevented Palestinian leaders from speaking in America. On top of that: Public perception. The media was long ago bought and paid for. Framing Palestinians as terrorists, bad guys, dehumanizing them, justifying actions. Providing sound bites that incorrectly represent the situation. "Israel must have self-defense" "They'll kills us" "Only democracy" "Most moral army". etc. etc. etc. Silencing Palestinian voices in any way they can. Shutting down art exhibits, documentaries, speakers. If nothing else, desperate harassment, meltdowns, and other abusive methods meant to invoke "fight or flight" response to pressure people into agree with them. Finally, culturally the racism that Israeli children are indoctrinated with (and the generally genetic lack of empathy) prep them for genocide. Israelis are prepared to dehumanize Palestinian children, destroy and steal their homes, and participate in the ethnic cleansing. 80% support this cleansing. The hatred is in them.

They are raised to have no greater respect for children/pregnant mothers than the slave drivers who threw black babies to alligators. How could the world have moved to stop this? This was all intentional and speaks to their murderous ambitions in the region. They have framed themselves as "good guys who just want to live in peace" while they are the most conniving people out there with huge political aspirations. Saying they just want to live ignores the fact that Israelis do HAVE goals, which always included removing Palestinians.

LYING and trying assuage leaders that "they aren't going to do a genocide" just long enough to successfully turn around and DO that exact thing, letting the leaders know they got screwed and lied to.

Blaming Palestinians for the continual loss of their land and rights because they acted as "savages" is wrong. No amount of Palestinian peace would ever stop Israeli aggression and ambition. It's wrong to assume that Palestinians could have done something to stop this by doing nothing. Attempting to resist only sped it up, with a flimsy justification, but the suffocation was always coming. "Let me kill you now, and if you struggle I'll kill even more of your family through collective punishment."

In fact, Palestinians have just been trying to live their lives, as best as possible with the daily violence, harassment, discrimination, and humiliation, hoping it would be enough and it was NOT. The West Banks hopes it will avoid this fate by not being terrorists, but they will not. They should have realized the existential threat living next to them. Israelis have always been a snake in the grass, from the moment the Palestinians opened their homes up to the Jewish WW2 refugees who turned around and spoke gleefully behind their back of how they'd planned to rob their kind host.

In order to help Palestinians heal, they must be given justice.

"Look at that smile. The smile of a beautiful Palestinian child. Over 7,000 Palestinian children murdered in a little over a month. Hundreds of thousands traumatized by air strikes, starvation, and torture.

They were called children of darkness by Netanyahu, but look at that light. See his humanity and heed his call. Palestinian children deserve freedom. They deserve a future. Let’s end this occupation once and for all."

"A Palestinian baby girl, not even 2 years old, was trapped under the rubble of her house, alone for 6 hours, after being bombed by Zionists. It was not until the morning that the rescue services found her because she was crying."

"The statement made by the sister of one of the released Thai hostages: "He said that he was neither tortured nor assaulted, and he had been fed good food. He was very well taken care of. It seems as though he stayed in a house, not a tunnel."

"Are you serious? That little one was in jail? It’s hard to believe such a young child could face such harsh realities. Situations like these compel us to question the justice systems and their impacts on the most vulnerable. #ChildImprisonment #JusticeSystem #HardToBelieve”

"All the Palestinian hostages respect their mothers so much..he kissed her feet"

"7 year old Eileen Al-Khayyat, along with her family and siblings Celine, 5 years old, and Mahmoud, 42 days old, were killed in by an ISRAELI BOMBING on their home on 13/10/2023."

"For the first time in 50 days"

"i’m reading about how israel has banned any displays of palestinian joy tonight, and if it wasn’t so dystopian it would be funny. joy really is an act of resistance"

Humanitarianism, justice, and truth is on the side of Palestine.

I don't doubt the hearts of people either. The vast majority of people are good and see what is happening and feel the pain.

What I think is complicating the issue is people get scared in the face of a tyrant, who regularly intimidates, confuses, harasses, cries, emotionally exhausts people to get their way. They'd rather find a way to side with the person with more guns it at all possible. If people saw a yelling 6'2 man assault a small woman in the street, they'd feel terrible, but the reality is people would be scared to stand up to him or get involved and would want to run away. When they truly become hopeless and believed they could do nothing to stop it, they may even resent the victim. This is human.

"What did you expect?"

How can these people say "you" as if the person they are speaking to was guilty of the Oct. 7 attack...as if any of the many people who have been killed even knew about the attack.

Just because we've come to expect, globally, that Israel is off its hinges about any deaths of its citizens (allegedly) that doesn't mean this behavior is acceptable. Why do you tolerate it as normal?

What was Israel trying to achieve, that they could only achieve by killing 14K+ people?

If your stated goal was fighting Hamas, why not do that surgically in a way where the amount of civilian causalities would be in the hundreds if it was abnormally high. If your stated goal really was to end Hamas, you'd gather information and go out and arrest specifically people, and you'd disrupt operations (and you would fix the deplorable conditions that made Hamas feel like that it was doing is necessary.)

Military violence usually has a goal, and doesn't kill more civilians than necessary to achieve it. You want a country to sign a surrender.

But when Palestine has already surrendered to any terms and you keep firing (to achieve nothing), what is that?

Killing 14K+ people was not necessary to bring Hamas into a hostage negotiation. Israel could have already agreed to the SAME trade deal on Oct. 8 as they have now, without firing a shot.

So why did they kill 14K+ people if it wasn't necessary to force a country/state to the negotiating table?

The second justification for their action is bloodthirsty revenge; they've strong armed people into saying, "if you kill 1,000, I will destroy you 1000x more" is a valid military strategy. (Spoiler alert: It's not. It's a move done to ENSURE the continuation of violence).

This isn't even about revenge. Nobody is angry enough to kill 14K+ for 1,000 people. This is about genocide.

They have no interest in ridding the region of Hamas (their actions show that) or achieving any goal except the targeting of civilians. And they won't stop creating and capitalizing on incidences like this until they have enough incidences to permanently displace and cleanse the region of Palestinians.

For somebody who so over-zealously tried to "kill 14K+ in order to get rid of Hamas" they sure are super happy to make deals and continuing to let Hamas operate...